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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Basic timeline of Somalia

This post is a basic timeline of Somalia. There are 28 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Land of Punt (2500 - 980 BC)
• Macrobians (1st millennium BC)
• Mogadishu Sultanate (9th century - 13th century AD)
• Ifat Sultanate (1185-1403)
• Ajuran Sultanate (13th century - 17th century)
• Adal Sultanate (1415-1577)
• Somali-Portugese wars (16th century)
• Majeerteen Sultanate (17th century - 1927)
• Hobyo Sultanate (1878-1927)
• French Somaliland (1883-1967)
• British Somaliland (1884-1960)
• Banadir Resistance (1888-1924)
• Italian Somaliland (1889-1936)
• Italian East Africa (1936-1941)
• Somalia gains independence (1960)
• Somaliland (1960 - now)
• Coup d'état (1969)
• Ogaden War (1977-1978)
• Somaliland War of Independence (1981-1991)
• Ethiopian-Somali Border War (1982)
• Isaaq genocide (1987-1989)
• Somaliland declarers independence (1991)
• Somali Civil War (1991- now)
• Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
• Somalia War (2006-2009)
• Al-Shabaab (2006 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Somalia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Somalia.)